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Nicholas Breton

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Nicholas Breton , 1551?-c.1623, English author, a prolific and versatile writer of verse and prose. His best work, written in a lyrical and pastoral vein, appeared in The Arbor of Amorous Devices (1597), England's Helicon (1600), and The Passionate Shepherd (1604). Bibliography: See his poems (ed. with biography by J. Robertson, 1952); A Mad World My Masters and Other Prose Works (ed. by U. Kentish-Wright, 1929). Author not available, BRETON, NICHOLAS. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

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